Trump says that he is ‘not a racist’ and that he never used vulgarity to describe poor countries in immigration debate
2018-01-15 00:20:12 source：The Washington Post
January 14, 2018
President Trump said Sunday that he is “not a racist” and denied that he had spoiled chanced for an immigration overhaul in Congress by using a vulgarity to describe poor countries as relations between key GOP and Democratic lawmakers turned poisonous.
With the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants in the balance, Trump blamed Democrats for fouling chances for a deal addressing young immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children. And in a statement, he called himself “the least racist person.”
Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) — who attended the Oval Office meeting last week and previously said they could not recall whether Trump had referred to “shithole countries” — on Sunday denied outright that Trump had said it. They suggested that a Democrat who publicly confirmed the remarks, Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, could not be trusted.
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